The family and story was all a little too pretenious for me. While I did enjoy it I really didn't feel emotionally invested until about half way through the novel. The parents were absolutely awful and the final culmination made me angry which I guess is what you were expected to feel about them but I felt I was being lead to this conclusion(and not of my own volition which is not what I want from a good book) This will probably work for some people but it felt like the next book all the hipster kids would be reading!